http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/vietnam/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:52:11 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286427/posts Fox News alert during Fox and Friends. No story on Fox News site, yet. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286427/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:52:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285836/posts Father Ly on trial in 2007 Hanoi, Vietnam, Jul 3, 2009 / 07:33 pm (CNA).- On Wednesday 37 members of the U.S. Senate called on President Nguyen Minh Triet to release Fr. Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a longtime human rights advocate.The bipartisan group of Senators, led by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) cited “serious flaws” concerning the priest’s arrest, trial and imprisonment. They asked the Vietnamese president to facilitate Father Ly’s “immediate and unconditional release from prison” and to allow him to return home and work without restrictions on his “internationally guaranteed” freedom of expression, association... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285836/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284759/posts Excavation of an ancient Vietnamese site has thrown up the earliest evidence of rice cultivation, while shedding new light on how the death of young children was viewed by community members. The excavation, led by professor Peter Bellwood and Marc Oxenham from the Australian National University (ANU) School of Archaeology and Anthropology, studied the site, some 3,000-4,000 years old, named An Son. The findings suggest that death in young children was so common that community members were unlikely to revere the death of their offspring until they had survived for more than five years. "The burial of a new born... The Hindu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284759/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:39:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282109/posts A core issue in our recollections of Vietnam is the performance of the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam), our South Vietnamese allies. My good friend, R.J. DelVecchio, fellow former Marine in Vietnam, able student of Vietnam, and humanitarian, just sent me an email about the “Evolution of the ARVN” that is a particularly good overview and corrective to many’s view. Let me share it with you: + Photos & Links for more about the ARVN MaggiesFarm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282109/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:17:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278071/posts WASHINGTON - Despite pleges to protect South Vietnam, former US president Richard Nixon privately vowed to "cut off the head" of its leader unless he backed peace with the communist North, tapes released Tuesday showed. The tapes appear to confirm charges by South Vietnam's late president, Nguyen Van Thieu, who tearfully accused the United States of breaking its word to protect Saigon when the southern capital fell in 1975. The National Archives released more than 150 hours of new tapes from Nixon, who notoriously recorded his conversations. Nixon is heard railing against the media and Congress for allegedly undercutting the... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278071/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:07:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277162/posts Although many Vietnam movies have been made since the mid-70. FORGOTTEN HEROES will stand out as one of the best. This is an action war drama and could be about men in any war, but this moving story unfolds in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia. Forgotten Heroes - The Movie http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277162/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:24:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274871/posts Report: News Legend Walter Cronkite Gravely Ill By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY Updated 9:00 PM EDT, Thu, Jun 18, 2009 American journalism legend, Walter Cronkite, is nearing death and CBS News has been scrambling to update the 92-year-old's obituary, Mediabistro.com reported Thursday. The former anchor of "CBS Evening News" is gravely ill, according to TVNewser, a news blog on Mediabistro.com that cited several sources at CBS News. The Los Angeles Times reported that rumors surrounding Cronkite's health began swirling when CBS began calling other top TV anchors for quotes and comments on Cronkite's career. CBS News declined to comment on Cronkite's condition.... nbcphiladelphia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274871/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:29:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272675/posts In a nationally televised address on August 4, 1964, US President Lyndon Johnson announced that North Vietnam had launched two unprovoked attacks on American military ships.  Within three days of Johnson's TV appearance, lawmakers passed the bipartisan Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and Mr. Johnson had started the ill-fated Vietnam War. Political analysts say the crisis helped Mr. Johnson defeat former military pilot and war veteran, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, in the 1964 presidential election.  (Employing a Democrat gimmick still used today, Johnson also portrayed Goldwater as racist.) "Conspiracy kooks" charged that Johnson lied about the second attack and they also... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272675/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:10:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520450/posts E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version November 11, 2005, 2:18 p.m. War & Responsibility “It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.” EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the text of a Veterans Day speech President George W. Bush delivered at Tobyhanna Army Depot, in Pennsylvania, as released by the White House. Thank you all very much. Thank you all for coming, please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm glad to be back in Pennsylvania and I'm proud to be the first sitting President to visit Monroe County. (Applause.) I'm especially... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520450/posts#comment Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:01:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271666/posts June 14, 2009Obama's Other Controversial ChurchBy Andrew Walden "This is a guy (former Weatherman terror-bomber Bill Ayers) who lives in my neighborhood ... the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago - when I was 8 years old - somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense." -- Barack Obama on the Campaign trail, 2008 As President Obama prepared to commemorate D-Day, the Associated Press dug up old details and photos to write a warm fuzzy story about the WW2 service record of Obama's maternal grandfather... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271666/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:06:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271373/posts If someone threw you a party about 40 years too late, would you still go? On Saturday, at least 1,500 of Minnesota's Vietnam-era veterans did. The vets, along with friends and family that brought the total crowd to an estimated 5,000, came to an event in their honor held on the State Capitol grounds in St. Paul. There were cheese curds and hot dogs, plane flyovers and a color parade, live entertainment and VIP speakers, laughing children and nodding grannies. A lot like any summer weekend festival, until you got to the "Traveling Wall," a three-fifths scale replica of the... StarTribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271373/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:12:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2271276/posts The three brothers grew up during the depression in a hard steel mill town. The older brother was a brilliant academic, star athlete, and he was a father figure to his younger siblings. He taught them honesty, honor, courage, and respect. He was proud of them, and they were proud of him. In fact, they freely admitted in later years that they had worshipped him. They grew to be solid young men, bright with prospect, even tempered, and religious. When World War 2 broke out, the older brother joined the Army Air Corps, and was trained by the Royal Air... examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2271276/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:53:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270329/posts Vietnam fighter jet crashes, pilot killed International AP News 2009-06-10 10:42 HANOI, Vietnam (AP): An official says a Vietnamese fighter jet crashed during a training mission, killing the lone pilot. A district military official who identified himself only as Thanh said the Soviet-made SU-22 crashed into a corn field Tuesday morning in Cam Thuy District in northern Thanh Hoa province after taking off from a nearby military air base. Wednesday's Youth newspaper quotes villager Truong Van Dinh as saying he heard a big explosion before the plane crashed and engulfed in a ball of fire. Several military plane crashes involving... Associated Press (AP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270329/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:34:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269661/posts Hanoi, Vietnam, Jun 11, 2009 (CNA).- The Vietnamese government has renewed its seizures of Catholic Church properties in the country, demolishing several monasteries to build hotels and tourist resorts. The move has generated fears that the government has adopted a new and “harsh” approach to Catholics. Last week the government ordered the destruction of the monastery of the Congregation of the Brothers of the Holy Family in Long Xuyen, Vietnam. A spokesman for the diocese said the former two-story home of the priests and religious of the Holy Family Order was destroyed on June 4. The Sisters of St. Paul... EWTN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269661/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:58:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269578/posts The now-demolished monastery of the Brothers of the Holy Family Hanoi, Vietnam, Jun 11, 2009 / 05:07 am (CNA).- The Vietnamese government has renewed its seizures of Catholic Church properties in the country, demolishing several monasteries to build hotels and tourist resorts. The move has generated fears that the government has adopted a new and “harsh” approach to Catholics. Last week the government ordered the destruction of the monastery of the Congregation of the Brothers of the Holy Family in Long Xuyen, Vietnam. A spokesman for the diocese said the former two-story home of the priests and religious of... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269578/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:15:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2267349/posts The two-storey building was home to the Order of the Brothers of The Holy Family of Banam. Its altar and votive statues were thrown into a rubbish dump. Church properties are being seized by the authorities to be turned into hotels or tourist resorts. Catholic leaders lament the violation of religious freedom in the country. The monastery of the Congregation of the Brothers of The Holy Family of Banam (Frères de la Sainte Famille de Banam) has been demolished by government order, a spokesman for the diocese of Long Xuyen, capital of An Giang province, reported. As a result of... AsiaNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2267349/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:27:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263330/posts AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq, June 2, 2009 – From the jungles of Vietnam to the streets of New York City to the deserts of Iraq, one Army noncommissioned officer has proved his dedication to the country through decades of service. Army Sgt. 1st Class Luis R. Laluz, far right, of Staten Island, N.Y., offers soldiers weight-lifting tips in a gym at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, May 4, 2009. An amateur bodybuilder and former bodybuilding champion, Laluz started a physical fitness program for soldiers in his unit, the 321st Sustainment Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Kiyoshi C.... Face of Defence http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263330/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:43:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261533/posts VIRGINIA BEACH A few years ago at a reunion for Navy sailors and airmen, Clarence Cooper met two men he'd seen just once - Sept. 14, 1968. It was a hot and humid afternoon when North Vietnamese troops ambushed Cooper's supply ship on the river outside Vinh Long. Rockets streamed from the bank, blasted through bulkheads and drove shrapnel into the small crew. The sailors unloaded on the entrenched enemy lines. The deck was covered with smoke and fire and cartridge cases and two rocket-propelled grenades that somehow didn't explode. The fight culminated with a helicopter rescue of a gravely... The Virginian-Pilot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261533/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 09:56:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261203/posts With attention focused on North Korea's brinkmanship on nuclear weapons and missiles, another potential crisis is brewing that is about ready to spill over into violence, with Vietnam apparently preparing to challenge China's ownership of a string of islands thought to be the link to billions of dollars worth of oil. In asserting its rights to the Spratly Islands also claimed by China, Vietnam has ordered six Project 636 Kilo-class submarines from Russia and has gotten permission for the purchase, in addition to other military arms Vietnam has ordered. Russia sees the sales as strategically beneficial and Chinese critics suggest... wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261203/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 14:46:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261047/posts Four decades ago, the liberal, antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped to force President Lyndon B. Johnson from office. Specifically, Johnson decided not to run for re-election in 1968 in large part because of rising primary challenges and increasingly vitriolic demonstrations against him. One chant that was heard often at anti-Vietnam War rallies was "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" The level of anger now is nowhere close to that level, but there are warning signs that President Obama is starting to generate serious opposition on the fiery left. There is increasing unease about his... U.S. News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261047/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 04:28:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260012/posts They pledged to leave no man behind, so for 43 years the mystery of what happened to Huey 808 has tortured veterans of the First Air Cavalry. The helicopter and its four-man crew failed to return from a routine mission in December 1965, soon after braving enemy fire at the battle of Ia Drang, America's first great clash of arms in Vietnam. Pilots spent months scouring the jungle looking for traces of a crash site, and for years afterwards, comrades of the lost crew made trips to the steamy hill villages of the Central Highlands looking for clues to what... Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260012/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 18:55:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257871/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - For more than a dozen years, Tina Valdez and her family have worked to pay special tribute to her Vietnam veteran father. The Santa Fe, N.M., native's father, Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Enrique Valdez, is the latest addition to the names inscribed at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington. On Monday, the National Park Service and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund will honor him during a ceremony commemorating Memorial Day. Enrique Valdez served two tours in Vietnam and was wounded on Aug. 26, 1969. A piece of shrapnel severed his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed from... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257871/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 17:07:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2257818/posts At first there was no place for us to go until someone put up that Black Granite Wall. Now, everyday and night, my Brothers and my Sisters wait to see the many people from places afar file in front of this Wall. Many stopping briefly and many for hours and some that come on a regular basis. It was hard at first, not that it's gotten any easier, but it seems that many of the attitudes towards that Vietnam war we were involved in have changed. I can only pray that the ones on the other side have learned something, and... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2257818/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 15:12:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257443/posts SEARCH DIGITAL IMAGE OF THE WALL More photos at The Wall-USA The Washington Times has partnered with Footnote to create a searchable digital image of the 58,000+ names on the Vietnam War Memorial. When you find the name, you can read details from the government war records on each of these fallen heroes... as well as add your own personal stories and photos. But utilizing the new info age technology, this gives an even more personal touch to the Memorial, and to the memory of those who have given their all for our country. (Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257443/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 20:03:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257436/posts The Washington Times has partnered with the Internet company Footnote.com on a new project that transforms Washington's Vietnam war memorial wall into an interactive, personal journey on the Web. The Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial allows you to search the names on the wall and to drill down into the government's official war records to learn details about each of the 58,000-plus heroes enshrined on the wall. You can also add your own personal stories, remembrances and photographs. (edit) Start by clicking on the "Search the Wall" box, where you can select "Search" or "View." Once you find the name... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257436/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 19:46:30 GMT